Diane Schanzenbach

Diane Miriam Whitmore Schanzenbach (* 1972 as Diane Miriam Whitmore ) is an American economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Schanzenbach studied economics and religion at Wellesley College , where she in June 1995 as Artium Baccalaureus magna cum laude graduate . She then moved to Princeton University to study economics , where she completed her Masters in 1999 and her Ph.D. in 2002. - Graduated successfully. After two years as a scholar at the University of California, Berkeley , she took on a position as assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 2004 . In July 2010 she moved within Illinois to Northwestern University , where her husband Max Schanzenbach had been appointed and where she became an associate professor . In 2016 she was appointed full professor at the university , and the following year she took over the Margaret Walker Alexander Chair .

Schanzenbach has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2012 , and between 2015 and 2017 she was Director of the Brookings Institution's renowned Hamilton Project . Since 2018 she has been one of twelve co-editors of the Journal of Human Resources , in which she previously worked as an associate editor. Since 2016 she has also been on the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management .

In her work, Schanzenbach deals in particular with the effects of social policy and education ; her main focus is on child poverty and related countermeasures and aid programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program .

Schanzenbach is married to the law professor Max Schanzenbach, who gained prominence primarily through a study on the connection between the political background of judges and the average sentence imposed. The couple has three children.

Web links

• Official homepage at Northwestern University